Renting

Surging rental prices are dwarfing inflation – and not enough people are talking about it
RENTING

Surging rental prices are dwarfing inflation – and not enough people are talking about it

While a spike in UK inflation to 2.3% might have been higher than some were expecting, the 8.7% rise in rents was the 15th consecutive month that increases have been above 8%

Renters’ Rights Bill ‘can’t come soon enough’ as Section 21 eviction claims at eight-year high
Renting

Renters’ Rights Bill ‘can’t come soon enough’ as Section 21 eviction claims at eight-year high

More than 8,000 households were served a no-fault eviction notice between July and September this year as the wait for Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill goes on

Autumn budget: Labour’s failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is ‘deeply worrying’
Housing benefits

Autumn budget: Labour’s failure to raise housing benefit to keep up with rents is ‘deeply worrying’

Local housing allowance was unfrozen for the first time in four years earlier this year and Labour has been under pressure to ensure housing benefit keeps pace with rising rents

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless
Joanna Elson

Labour must increase housing benefit in autumn budget or risk making pensioners homeless

Household overcrowding: Is there enough space in your home?
housing

Household overcrowding: Is there enough space in your home?

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How to apply for a council house
Housing

How to apply for a council house

What is bedroom tax and how does it affect your benefits?
social housing

What is bedroom tax and how does it affect your benefits?

Will Labour’s employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials’ insecurity?
Alice Martin

Will Labour’s employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials’ insecurity?

Getting a lodger: How to get started
housing

Getting a lodger: How to get started

What is a sitting tenant?
renting

What is a sitting tenant?

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill will ‘put decency in the heart of the private rented sector’
RENTING

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill will ‘put decency in the heart of the private rented sector’

How Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill is aiming to save renters from ‘fear of eviction’
RENTING

How Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill is aiming to save renters from ‘fear of eviction’

Renters kicked out by no-fault evictions pay thousands to find a new home: ‘It’s totally unjust’
RENTING

Renters kicked out by no-fault evictions pay thousands to find a new home: ‘It’s totally unjust’

What happens at a possession hearing?
eviction

What happens at a possession hearing?

Homelessness soars in England due to sky-high rents and asylum backlog crackdown
Homelessness

Homelessness soars in England due to sky-high rents and asylum backlog crackdown

Renters should be compensated if they’re forced out of their home, campaigners say
Renters' rights

Renters should be compensated if they’re forced out of their home, campaigners say

Landlords are worried about rent controls. Will Labour introduce them to cap record-high rents?
Rent controls

Landlords are worried about rent controls. Will Labour introduce them to cap record-high rents?

Tenants of TV star Stephen Mulhern left ‘living with damp and mould for two years’
Exclusive

Tenants of TV star Stephen Mulhern left ‘living with damp and mould for two years’

What are service charges? Everything you need to know
renting

What are service charges? Everything you need to know

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know
renting

Section 21 eviction notice: What you should know

Starmer promises planning passports will put ‘rocket boosters’ on Labour housebuilding efforts
HOUSING

Starmer promises planning passports will put ‘rocket boosters’ on Labour housebuilding efforts

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Section 8 eviction notice: Everything you need to know
renting

Section 8 eviction notice: Everything you need to know

Disabled renters hoped Labour would bring change. Are they actually any different to the Tories?
Mikey Erhardt

Disabled renters hoped Labour would bring change. Are they actually any different to the Tories?

What is the Renters’ Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
RENTING

What is the Renters’ Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

Four ways Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill differs from the Tories’ doomed Renters Reform Bill
RENTING

Four ways Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill differs from the Tories’ doomed Renters Reform Bill